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by throw_nbvc1234 1468 days ago
An alternative way of connecting the same dots (I'd argue the truth is somewhere in the middle):

Musk's comments are moving us closer to a civil war because people are putting too much weight in them. If general society viewed musk as someone who wasn't a "terrible human being" but rather just someone they disagreed with, there would be no justification in their minds to consider a civil war as the response. Someone (even someone with less influence then musk) who says the "bad things" on twitter will likely get more media coverage and outrage then someone doing objectively evil things on a smaller scale.